The Queen's State of Peter Simon is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its complete lack of public education, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 21.357 billion Peter Simonians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, with Law & Order also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.8%.

The very strong Peter Simonian economy, worth 962 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 45,081 betales, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 306,499 per year while the poor average 2,422, a ratio of 126 to 1.

Elections have been outlawed. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Peter Simon's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Peter Simon is ranked 142,806^th in the world and 290^th in Ancient Lands for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 654.87 on the Gilded Widget Scale.